[Mono-winforms-list] (Rich)TextBox: Maximum reasonable string length?

[Sponsel, Carsten (ext)]

Hi!

My application does P/Invoke-Calls into some native code, which asynchronosly calls back and pass some string value. That works fine, even for large strings. But when I want the string to be displayed in a System.Windows.Forms.(Rich)TextBox, the performance dramatically goes down the larger the string gets. Usually I get strings between 1 MB and 5 MB length. The mono application seems to hang - but it needs ages to just display the text (writing to console works fine) :-(   I used (Rich)TextBox.AppendText and (Rich)TextBox.Text property.  Is that a known issue? Is the (Rich)TextBox not supposed to display such large strings? Do I have to use another fast method? s there some sort of control that can handle it?

Thank you
Carsten

 
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